12月19日，中国三角轮胎公司宣布将在美国北卡罗来纳州建设一家工厂。（图片来源：视觉中国）
中国日报网12月20日电 据美联社报道，一家中国轮胎制造商正更加积极地进军美国市场，并在12月19日宣布将在北卡罗来纳州建设一家工厂，用人规模达到800人，年产轮胎600万个。
北卡罗来纳州一个负责管理大公司税收优惠的委员会，正式批准关于接受三角轮胎到该州首府罗利以东约100公里的埃奇科姆县建厂的计划。这是位于中国威海的轮胎制造商在美国建立的首家工厂，工厂耗资5.8亿美元，生产产品包括乘用车量、卡车、巴士及重型设备的轮胎。
三角轮胎美国分公司首席执行官曼尼·西塞罗在一项声明中表示：“随着我们继续扩大公司在美国的影响力，这将大大提升我们的品牌知名度和对我们产品的关注度。”
据悉，三角轮胎如果能够完成招聘指标，将会获得最高达1.52亿美元的州及地方税收减免、员工培训及其他奖励政策。这些提供的岗位工资预计平均年薪为5.645万美元，远远高于该地区的平均年薪3.2642万美元。
上个月，三角轮胎公司在对上海证券交易所披露的报告中指出，建厂活动将于明年开始，分为两个阶段。首先是建设一家年产500万个客车轮胎的工厂，之后再建设一条年产100万个商用车轮胎的生产线。该公司表示，这两个项目还需要两到三年的时间完成。
据悉，三角轮胎场至少是目前在美国建厂的第三家中国轮胎制造商。据业内相关报告显示，从2015年的全球销售额来看，三角轮胎是中国第三大轮胎制造商，在全球排名第17位。
三角轮胎官网显示，该公司已经向美国市场出口轮胎时间长达20多年，而且大约两年前就在美国田纳西州的富兰克林设立了自己的分公司。
（编辑：潘一侨 党超峰）
Chinese Tiremaker Picks North Carolina Site for Major Plant
A Chinese tiremaker is moving more aggressively into the U.S. market, announcing plans Tuesday for a North Carolina factory that is to eventually employ 800 and produce six million tires a year.
A state committee that administers large corporate tax breaks approved plans to coax Triangle Tire to rural Edgecombe County, about 65 miles (100 kilometers) east of the state capital of Raleigh. The $580 million plant is the first in the United States for the Weihai, China-based maker of tires for passenger vehicles, trucks and buses and heavy equipment.
"We expect that this will provide a huge boost in brand awareness and interest in our products as we continue to expand our presence in the U.S.," Manny Cicero, CEO of the company's Triangle Tire USA subsidiary, said in a statement.
Triangle Tire could get up to $152 million in state and local tax breaks, worker training and other incentives if it meets hiring targets. The jobs are projected to pay an average wage of $56,450 a year, well above a county average of $32,642.
The company said in a disclosure to the Shanghai Stock Market last month that construction would start next year on a two-phase plan to first build a factory producing 5 million passenger cars a year.
That would be followed by production lines churning out 1 million commercial vehicle tires a year. The company added that construction is expected to take two to three years for each project.
The Triangle factory marks at least the third Chinese tiremaker to build production plants in the U.S.
Triangle was the third-largest tire Chinese manufacturer based on 2015 global sales, according to Tire Business, an Akron, Ohio-based trade newspaper. Triangle ranked 17th among tire companies in worldwide sales, the newspaper estimated.
Triangle Tire has exported to the U.S. market for more than two decades and established its U.S. subsidiary in Franklin, Tennessee, nearly two years ago, the company's web site said.
